• Gorb [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    My mum just made her own baby slop which was largely just boiled veg and chicken blended in large batches then freeze it. Only baby food stuff she’d get was desert things as a treat.

    Babies are humans if their food is unpalatable to you its probably shit for them as well.

    Also i strongly believe sugary cereals were a psyop to get kids addicted to sweets n shit. How did we get to the point of feeding children bowls of sugar and carbs and assert that as normal? Banana breakfast supremacy

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      3 months ago

      Also i strongly believe sugary cereals were a psyop to get kids addicted to sweets n shit.

      The entire American diet is disgustingly sweet. And any cheap processed food is also pumped full of high fructose corn syrup. I’m American and it fails to amaze me that these norms are never challenged.

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        3 months ago

        Apparently non-Americans are usually surprised by how sweet American bread is. I had one friend from Germany whose only semblance of a bread refuge in our rural area was Panera’s bread wall miches.

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      3 months ago

      I’m not that big a hippie but my 5yo has had almost no cereal. We largely (but not militantly) avoid high fructose corn syrup- that cuts out a lot of crap.

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      2 months ago

      Grown adults still eating sugary cereal branded for kids is one of the most pathetic things I have observed since leaving my parents’ home.

      They will eat name-brand instead of generic. They will eat McDonalds, the most basic slop. Sometimes I look down on people making something from a box, but that is at least cooking, and it is cheap when you factor in time and mental energy. People who buy the expensive low-quality shit shouldn’t complain about being broke.

      • christian [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        Man I already feel pathetic and most days I’m just trying to push through. Sometimes eating the same poison I grew up eating makes that a little easier.

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          2 months ago

          Do you eat the General Mills brand, or the Malt-O-Meal/store brand?

          The $8 Big Mac, or the burgers at the store that cost $1.40 for the patty and $0.60 for everything else? The $3 burrito from Taco Bell, or the 50-cent burrito in an 8-pack from the frozen section?